Elizabeth Warren on Ban autonomous lethal weapons

Elizabeth Warren

U.S. Senator (D-MA)

DoD has a strategic, legal, and moral responsibility to ensure that AI technology is deployed with meaningful constraints to comply with U.S. and international laws, including by preventing civilian harm.

AI Verified (Jul 7, 2026)

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Elizabeth Warren, “Warren Presses DoD for Answers on Military AI Contracts, Demands Release of AI Contracts,” July 7, 2026.

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Ban autonomous lethal weapons

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The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth

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I am concerned that the terms of this agreement may permit the Trump Administration to use OpenAI’s technology to conduct mass surveillance of Americans and build lethal autonomous weapons that could harm civilians with little to no human oversight.

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Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are trying to extort an American company into removing common sense guardrails that protect Americans from mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, with no human decision-makers, that can kill with impunity.

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